Whether your Alexa predicted it or not, it’s raining. Which makes choosing what to wear in the morning even more difficult. All of the potential outfits you were brainstorming the night before are in the mental trashcan. While the weather may be uninspiring, your rainy day outfit doesn’t have to be. Equip yourself with rain boots to avoid soggy socks and don a waterproof bucket hat to preserve your hair. Your full outfit, however, doesn’t have to be rainproof - just your outerwear and accessori... Tags: Fashion, Music, Alexa, Tiffany, Aritzia, Babaton Rhiannon Anorak

Whether your Alexa predicted it or not, it’s raining. Which makes choosing what to wear in the morning even more difficult. All of the potential outfits you were brainstorming the night before are in the mental trashcan. While the weather may be uninspiring, your rainy day outfit doesn’t have to be. Equip yourself with rain boots to avoid soggy socks and don a waterproof bucket hat to preserve your hair. Your full outfit, however, doesn’t have to be rainproof - just your outerwear and accessori... Tags: Fashion, Music, Alexa, Tiffany, Aritzia, Babaton Rhiannon Anorak

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Best Buy is discounting a range of products for its 3 Day Tax Day Sale, including the iPhone XS and XS Max, a few MacBook Pro laptops, a Toshiba TV, and more.
If you're in the market for a new tech product, it's well-worth looking th... Tags: Apple, Amazon, Trends, Best Buy, Sprint, Toshiba, Macbook Pro, Alexa, Insider Inc, Toshiba TV

Good morning! This is the tech news you need to know this Thursday.
. The fine relates to Google's abuse of its dominance in search advertising, with the firm pressuring third-party publishers to use its AdSense tool.
Huawei's CTO for Germany has dismissed spying claims as absurd and "technically impossible." The entire debate, he said, was being conducted by non-technical experts and related to politicians' wider concerns about China.
Apple finally launched its second-generation AirPods... Tags: Apple, Google, Amazon, Verizon, Europe, New York, Australia, Germany, Trends, Siri, Aol, Bill Gates, New Zealand, Jeff Bezos, Huawei, Alexa

Most digital personal assistants such as Apple's Siri and Amazon's Alexa have the option to sound either male or female. The team behind Q aims to break through gender binary. Tags: Apple, Amazon, News, Siri, Alexa

Voice is one of the most significant trends we marketers have had to face in a while. Remember when the proliferation of mobile devices changed the way we designed and built websites? Voice is going cause the same upheaval and it’s going to come even faster and be more wide-sweeping than mobile ever was.
If the last decade was our mobile marketing revolution, then the upcoming decade is the era of voice.
The mobile revolution made it possible for brands to reach their audiences wherever they we... Tags: Apple, Google, Walmart, Voice, Alexa, Branding, Purina, NPD Group Inc, Amazon Echo Google, Purina Alexa

Good morning! This is the tech news you need to know this Wednesday.
Google announced a huge gaming initiative: A Netflix-like video-game streaming platform named Stadia. The service is intended to run high-resolution blockbuster games on any device that runs Google's Chrome — from smartphones and tablets to computers and TVs.
Google unveiled a new controller for its Stadia gaming service on Tuesday, which connects to Google's data centers and pairs with whichever device the game is being ... Tags: Google, Facebook, UK, Samsung, Trends, Tesla, EA, Snapchat, Netflix, Aclu, New Zealand, Ubisoft, Stephen Collins, Alexa, Trump, Facebook Twitter

Good morning! This is the tech news you need to know this Tuesday.
Tesla is asking employees to volunteer and help deliver 30,000 cars before the end of the quarter. Sanjay Shah, a senior vice president at Tesla, asked employees to help deliver 30,000 cars over the last 15 days of the quarter.
Netflix says it won't be joining Apple's upcoming TV service. "We prefer to let our customers watch our content on our service," CEO Reed Hastings told reporters at the company's offices in Hollywood... Tags: Apple, Google, Elon Musk, Hollywood, Youtube, San Francisco, Trends, Tesla, Netflix, Square, Hyundai, Kia, The Washington Post, Pewdiepie, GDC, ZTE

Y Combinator’s incubator classes have gotten huge.
With over 200 companies, the Winter 2019 class is by far YC’s largest yet. Meanwhile, the incubator prepares to shift its headquarters from Mountain View to San Francisco.
It’s so large, in fact, it’s had to change the way it does Demo Day. Rather than all pitches happening on one stage, they were split across two stages (the “Pioneer” and “Mission” stages) running in parallel. So even if you were in the building, you couldn’t see all the pit... Tags: Google, Startups, TC, Facebook, Y Combinator, Hbo, New York, Instagram, Navy, China, India, Nigeria, Africa, US, Los Angeles, San Francisco

As consumers grow more comfortable with talking to voice-activated devices, media organizations want to say something back. From The Washington Post to NPR, publishers have been lining up to partner with smart speakers to entice viewers and create a new revenue stream. The relatively cheap cost of entry (especially for those with audio content that... Tags: Washington Post, Advertising, Magazine, Npr, Alexa, Publishers & Platforms

There may come a day when every speaker out there is an Alexa speaker. After all, who wouldn't want access to Amazon's awesome virtual personal assistant on all of their speakers? Today isn't that day, though, which is why the Amazon Echo Input exists. The company's Echo speaker lineup is great, but you'll never get the same quality of sound on an Echo Speaker as you would on a premium speaker. But if you connect the Echo Input to any auxiliary input, you'll get instant h... Tags: Amazon, News, Alexa, Amazon Echo Input

Alexa poses problems for developers, who encounter a steep learning curve in building voice apps. Even after creating an app, there's no guarantee people will find it. Tags: Amazon, Business, Technology, News, Alexa

An Alexa Voice Remote along with a pair of batteries are bundled with the new versions of Amazon Fire TV and Fire TV Stick. If you’re a new user then opening the firestick remote to replace batteries could be a bit tricky. That’s because the back panel of the remote is designed differently and can be tough to remove. In this article, we will guide you through the steps to open firestick remote and put in new batteries. Before proceeding, note that the procedure to remove the back cover varies d... Tags: Amazon, Television, Blogging, Tips, Fire TV Stick, Fire TV, Amazon Fire TV, Alexa, Remote, How To's, Alexa Voice Remote, Fire stick, Open Amazon Fire TV

Machine Learning and Deep Learning, which are off-shoots of Mathematics (Statistics) have helped produce a range of devices, which are called ‘intelligent’, which in reality is false.
Pattern is ingrained in the world, so it is with humans.
We speak and communicate within a set of framework, which over a period of time could be easily statistically inference, and this is what the the current generation of ‘AI Speakers’ do.
They do not have any ‘real intelligence’ at all.
The paradigm needs to b... Tags: Business, Siri, Artificial Intelligence, Alexa, AI Speakers

“Shut up, Siri!” “Screw off, Alexa!” We’ve all heard people berating their voice assistants, often in colorful terms. You’ve probably done it yourself, and so what? It’s not like our voice assistant has feelings — “she” is just a collection of code and a disembodied, robotic voice. Or so the conventional thinking goes. I’m here to tell you that thinking is wrong, and if you don’t want the Terminators hunting your grandchildren down in a dystopian future, start being nicer to Alexa today. Tech ti... Tags: Startups, Siri, Alexa, Podium

Apple laid the foundation for its approach to the TV market when it announced its refreshed Apple TV in 2015, and a new streaming service would serve to further that vision.
It's a critical move for Apple as it looks to combat slowing iPhone sales and maintain its status as an innovator in the industry.
The service will represent a new product category for Apple as next-generation gadgets like augmented reality glasses and autonomous driving software are still said to be in development.
When ... Tags: Apple, Google, Amazon, Hbo, Samsung, Trends, Bloomberg, Apple TV, Netflix, Tim Cook, Apple Watch, Pebble, James Corden, Oprah, Amazon Echo, Steven Spielberg

As long as voice assistants are on the rise, data privacy should be too. The market is now saturated with voice assistants from Siri and Google Assistant to Facebook Portal and Amazon Alexa. In January, Amazon announced that more than 100 million Alexa enabled devices have been sold globally. And, Google boasted that more than 1 billion devices, including Android phones, have the Google Assistant built-in. Whether it’s your alarm clock, bluetooth speaker, or even microwave, voice assistants can ... Tags: Google, Startups, Opinion, Siri, Alexa, Podium, Facebook Portal and Amazon Alexa In January Amazon

Amazon’s new Echo Dot is functionally the same as the old one—it’s basically a cheap way to put Alexa in every room—but its speaker is better, and it looks like something you won’t necessarily want to hide behind a plant. Normally $50, Daily Steals’ Facebook marketplace is blowing them out for $30 right now.Read more... Tags: Amazon, Deals, Kinja Deals, Science, Amazon deals, Alexa, Facebook Deals, Alexa Deals

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The iDevices Socket allows you to control your dumb light bulbs with your phone or voice.
It works with Alexa, Google Assistant, and Apple HomeKit, so should integrate with most smart homes.
While it works well, it's not the best sol... Tags: Apple, Google, Amazon, Trends, Philips, Philips Hue, Alexa, Alexa Google, Google Home, Apple Home, HomeKit Alexa, Insider Inc, Hue Hub

Amazon just knocked down the price of the second-generation Echo smart speaker with Alexa by 25 percent. The Echo can answer questions, control smart home devices, fill a room with music with its Dolby speakers, and make hands-free calls.
The post Amazon knocks down the price on the second-generation Echo smart speaker appeared first on Digital Trends. Tags: Amazon, Deals, News, Trends, Smart Home, Amazon Echo, Alexa

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If you don't have the time or patience to clean your house, you're in luck: These smart cleaning gadgets will do it for you.
Robot vacuums, self-cleaning litter boxes, and even microwave cleaners can help you clean every inch of your ... Tags: Google, Trends, Alexa, Insider Inc